Aunt Lute Books is an American multiculturalfeminist press based in San Francisco, California. The publisher also seeks to work with and support first-time authors.[1]
In 1982, Aunt Lute Book Company was founded by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss in Iowa.[2]
Aunt Lute merged with Spinsters Ink, another feminist publisher, in 1986, and the two organizations published jointly for several years in San Francisco under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute.[3] In 1990 the Aunt Lute Foundation was established as a non-profit publishing program.[citation needed]
Call Me Woman, the autobiography of South African activist Ellen Kuzwayo, Radmila Manojlovic Zarkovic's anthology, I Remember: Writings by Bosnian Women Refugees, and Cherry Muhanji's Lambda Award-winning novel Her have also been published by Aunt Lute.[5]
Other Aunt Lute titles include the first U.S. collection of Filipina/Filipina American women writers[6] and the first collection of Southeast Asian women writers,[7] as well as a number of translated texts.[8]
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993); Ed. Asha Kanwar
Through the Eye of the Deer: An Anthology of Native American Women Writers; Eds. Carolyn Dunn and Carol Comfort
Reclaiming Medusa: Short Stories by Contemporary Puerto Rican Women; Ed. Diana Velez
Awardsedit
Aunt Lute Books was the 2004 - 2005 and the 2005 - 2006 Best of the Small Presses Award granted by Standards, an International Cultural Studies Magazine.
External linksedit
Aunt Lute Books
Referencesedit
^"About Aunt Lute". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
^ abHoshino, Edith S. Feminist Publishing, in International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia editors: Philip G. Altbach & Edith S. Hoshino, 1995, Routledge ISBN 1-884964-16-8, p134
^Press Release: Spinsters Ink’s Legacy to Live On, March 1, 2005 quoted [1]
^Young, Stacey. Changing the Wor(l)d: Discourse, Politics and the Feminist Movement, Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-91376-4, p44
^"Aunt Lute Catalog - All Titles". Archived from the original on 2011-04-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
^"Babaylan: An Anthology of Filipina and Filipina-American Writers". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
^"Our Feet Walk the Sky: Women of the South Asian Diaspora". Archived from the original on 2011-07-07. Retrieved 2011-02-15.
^UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, The California Feminist Presses Collection, 2004